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I really appreciate "hardware reports" like this. Tangentially related, I've never seen this symbol before: ≍, apparently it means "equivalent to". Is this com
by nerdponx 3y ago
I really appreciate "hardware reports" like this.
Tangentially related, I've never seen this symbol before: ≍, apparently it means "equivalent to". Is this common notation in certain communities?
- triyambakam 3y agoChatGPT says it is not common outside of specialized mathematics
- jph 3y ago≍ means equivalent to, in math and logic. You've perhaps seen the meaning written just as a tilde "~" such in ASCII-based text, or written as "==" in JavaScript meaning loosely equal to. IIRC the symbol is also useful for asymptotes and limits, such as Big O notations.
- yagkasha 3y agoI would have expected '≈' as the symbol.
- nerdponx 3y agoRight, that's normally what I'd use in this situation. But that means something more like "approximately equal to", whereas this notation seems more akin to "equivalence" as in an equivalence class. I don't have a clear memory of what notation we used for that in school, but it wasn't this symbol.
- mikestew 3y agoI thought that was “approximately equal to”.
- applied_heat 3y agoIn hydraulics that symbol is a fixed flow restrictor such as an orifice plate
- utkarsh-singh 3y agoThanks! I just followed what GNOME Characters suggested.